It seems that Taylor Swift's "Fairytale" and "Love Story" are things of the past, because a lot has changed regarding Taylor's outlook on love.

The pop star sat down with pal Tavi Gevinson for the ELLE's June Women in Music Issue, and revealed that her first few albums were just "projections" of what she felt relationships would be like based on movies, books and songs. Once she actually experienced what she "thought" was love, though, everything changed.

"Once I fell in love, or thought I was in love, and then experienced disappointment or it just not working out a few times, I realized there's this idea of happily ever after which in real life doesn't happen," she said. "There's no riding off into the sunset, because the camera always keeps rolling in real life."

It's not that Taylor doesn't believe in love; she now has more realistic expectations of what a relationship could be.

"It's magical if you ask anyone who has ever fallen in love— it's the greatest. Now I have more of a grasp on the fact that when you're in a state of infatuation and you think everything that person does is perfect, it then— if you're lucky— morphs into a real relationship when you see that that person is not, in fact, perfect," she said. "But you still want to see them every day."

For inspiration about that type of relationship, Taylor turned to her friends Lena Dunham and Jack Antonoff to write the song, "You Are in Love." Taylor constructed the lyrics based on what Lena told her about her relationship with boyfriend Antonoff, saying that having a relationship like theirs would "beautiful," "hard," and "mundane at times."

Taylor does go deep when talking about her own love life on her latest album, 1989, which chronicles the journey of a failed relationship: from falling in love, to being heartbroken, to coming to the realization that everything is going OK, which she sings about on the final track, "Clean."

"'Clean'" I wrote as I was walking out of Liberty in London," Taylor explained. "Someone I used to date— it hit me that I'd been in the same city as him for two weeks and I hadn't thought about it. When it did hit me, it was like, 'Oh, I hope he's doing well.' And nothing else. And you know how it is when you're going through heartbreak. A heartbroken person is unlike any other person."

Many have speculated that the ballad was written about her relationship with One Direction star, Harry Styles, which may be true considering that London is Styles' hometown.

Taylor went on to say that it took some time to get used to not having a text message every morning from her ex saying "Hello, beautiful. Good morning," but in time, things just got easier.

"You replace these old habits with new habits, like texting your friends in a group chat all day and planning fun dinner parties and going out on adventures with your girlfriends," she said. "And then all of a sudden one day you're in London and you realize you've been in the same place as your ex for two weeks and you're fine. And you hope he's fine. The first thought that came to my mind was, I'm finally clean."